President Joe Biden is expected to nominate his choice for the next U.S. Supreme Court justice by the end of February, and he has narrowed his list of candidate
been unlocked. they are in contention. and we will have a seat at the table. we ve got a president who is revoking security clearances against his political enemies, in which he is talking about banning muslims from the united states and campaigning on that. doing sorts of things that are unimaginable even in a dystopian version of american governance but we are living it now. especially when the republican party is now led by donald trump and his supporters, that feels different than it might coming out of president obama or any other recent time. the idea of abolishing the electoral college as you suggested. the idea of expanding the supreme court to 15 seats with a different method of picking judges. i feel like those are bold, structural ideas about protecting our democracy. it also feels like we re sort of balanced on tiptoe right now in terms of our
electoral college votes have been unlocked. they are in contention. and we will have a seat at the table. we ve got a president who is revoking security clearances against his political enemies, in which he is talking about banning muslims from the united states, and campaigning on that. doing sorts of things that are unimaginable even in a fiction version of american governance but we are living it now. especially when the republican party is now led by donald trump and his supporters, that feels different than it might coming out of president obama or any other recent time. the idea of abolishing the electoral college as you suggested. the idea of expanding the supreme court to 15 seats with a different method of picking judges. i feel like those are bold, structural ideas about protecting our democracy. it also feels like we re balanced on tiptoe in terms of
documents process. basically, the national archives was cut out of it and some of the screening was put in the hands of a very close adviser to brett kavanaugh. that is odd. the bush essentially president george w. bush s team for those not following, brett kavanaugh had several key jobs in the president bush white house including staff secretary and worked on judicial nominations, involved in picking judges, several controversies there in the bush administration. he s at the center of this and one of the arguments is he s giving the advice to the president and privileged. i just wanted to say one thing of corey booker. obviously running for president. that doesn t disqualify him from raising points here but i also think that booker would like nothing more than the republicans in the senate to be trying to throw him out. elizabeth warren s biggest moment might have been when mitch mcconnell trying to shut her down. i think nevertheless she persisted and may be the